George Orwell was the most influential British writer since 1945. Many of his neologisms – such as ‘Big Brother’, ‘Thought Police’, ‘Room 101’, ‘Newspeak’, ‘memory hole ...

Post-War Literature: An Appraisal Critic, connoisseur, and a helpful guide to the cultural achievements of Croatia, MARIJAN MATKOVIĆ is Secretary-General of the Yugoslav Academy of Science and ...

August’s Locarno Film Festival will go British with its latest retrospective: Great Expectations: British Post-War Cinema, 1945-1960. The retrospective forms a major strand of the film festival ...

It’s no wonder it frequently appears on “best ever” lists. And yet a British film released within six weeks of It’s A Wonderful Life rivals Capra’s movie in the power of its storytelling.

Great Expectations: British Post-War Cinema, 1945-1960 is organized by the Locarno Film Festival in partnership with the BFI National Archive and the Cinémathèque Suisse, with the support of ...